Apache

Enabling .htaccess files

Check that you don't have an overall 'AllowOverride None in Apache's configuration file (/etc/apache2/httpd.conf)

Tags

DirectoryIndex

• Use DirectoryIndex to change list of default name of index file while browsing directory

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html         # Will serve php version first
DirectoryIndex mycustomindex.html           # To point to specific file when browsing directory (no directory listing)

HTTPS

From [1]. Assumptions:

• Already a website present at /var/www
• Package ssl-cert installed (that create snakeoil (i.e. self-signed) certificates in /etc/ssl)

# Load and enable SSL module
sudo a2enmod ssl
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

# Edit file
sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl
# ... and change lines as follows (for key/cert we use the snakeoil ones):
#  SSLEngine on
#  SSLOptions +FakeBasicAuth +ExportCertData +StrictRequire

#Enable the default SSL site:
sudo a2ensite default-ssl

# Tell Apache to reload its configuration:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

To also add user authentication, add the following lines to either

• File .htaccess in website directory
• Section <Directory /> in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "default"
AuthUserFile /var/www/nxl67002ux.ssl.passwd
Require valid-user

Then create the password file with the command htpasswd -c filename.passwd username

Finally, reload apache2:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload